Nah, it's always been considered a revenge fantasy. IRL BOFHs were BOFHs before it came around, they just didn't have a label. The omnipotence mania is built i

Nah, it's always been considered a revenge fantasy. IRL BOFHs were BOFHs before it came around, they just didn't have a label. The omnipotence mania is built in the very concept of "administrator" or "root", and because this obviously doesn't translate directly in the real world for IT admins, there is always a friction, a source of frustration, for people in those jobs. The real outcome of BOFH was to sensitize some bosses to the problems such personalities can produce, a concept that made it all the way to Sarbanes-Oxley. And despite that, the likes of Terry Childs [0] are still very much around. [0[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Childs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Childs